"Mr.
Kerry
has stated
that the
investigative
team is not
responsible
for
identifying
the party that
used chemical
weapons and
that its task
is
solely to
determine
whether such
weapons were
used. The
purpose of
that statement
is to justify
the American
administrationís
circumvention
of the
Security
Council. It
should be
recalled that,
in
its letter to
the
Secretary-General
of 20 March
2013, the
Syrian
Government
officially
requested that
the
investigation
should
determine who
it was that
used chemical
weapons in
Khan Asal.
That
request,
however, was
rejected by at
the time by
the
delegations of
the United
States of
America,
Britain and
France."

Kerry
wasn't asked
about that in
the Senate.
What is the
UN's response?
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon on
Tuesday took
only two
pre-selected
questions, one
given in
advance to the
UN's Alliance
which
sponsored
a faux "UN
briefing" with
Saudi
sponsored
rebel boss
Jarba.

Kerry
answered a
question by
saying, "I
hope President
Jarba"
answers that.
He cut off
Connecticut
Democrat Chris
Murphy. When
Kentucky
Republican
Rand Paul
asked him to
commit that
Obama wouldn't
go ahead and
use force if
not approved
by the
Congress,
Kerry would
not. Paul
said, so this
debate is
meaningless.

But
it's the UN
that most
feels that
fear, of
irrelevance.
Ban spoke
with Kerry,
but there is
no read-out.
The UN won't
provide a list
of
who Ban
Ki-moon has
called, which
the US State
Department
does for
Kerry.

The
hearing ended
with New
Jersey
Democrat
Robert
Menendez
saying that in
the tough
neighborhood
he grew up in
in Bayonne, he
was attacked
by a
bully until he
picked up a
stick from a
construction
site and hit
him. Is that
really the
analogy here?
Watch this
site.